It's not a "law." It's a constitutional amendment (the 22nd Amendment).

Even if they wanted to do this, I find it hard to believe that they'd be willing to spend the time and effort to get the amendment changed. Heck -- even a lot of Democrats with political aspirations would be dead-set against this.

Maybe not if he can take control of the court, which is very possible considering the age of the justices. He could make the argument that the amendment was unconstitutional and his court would agree thus nullifying the amendment. Who is going to argue with a 6-3 or 7-2 decision?

By the time a law, or better yet, a constitutional amendment gets passed to allow a president to run for more than 2 terms, the next election season will be upon us, and chances are that, a republican could get elected instead of Obama, and the democrats would be having all kinds of regrets after having that amendment passed which could get a republican installed in the presidency for for 20 years or more.

Can anyone doubt that, someone like Reagan couldn’t get elected for 20 or 30 years? That would be the biggest nightmare for any democrat. They’d be looking for repeal of the law or the amendment, as soon as any republican got elected and was deemed electable for a lengthy period of time.

There's a reason why the U.S. Constitution has only been amended 27 times. It's more complicated than just setting up voting machines and rigging a vote.

The last (27th) Amendment was ratified in 1992. It was originally drafted in 1789. That's right -- it took 203 years for enough states to ratify it to make it formally adopted. Before that, the 26th Amendment was ratified in 1971 -- 21 years earlier. Amendments are often drafted decades before they're ratified and formally incorporated into the Constitution.

You don't just go out and propose an amendment and have people vote on it next week. Once a proposed amendment is drafted it has to get ratified by something like 75% of the state legislatures in the U.S. That's 38 states, by my count. Barack Obama won 26 states. Please list the 12 states that Romney won in 2012 that will decide to approve such an idiotic amendment to the Constitution by 2016.

P.S. The last time the Democrats even won as many as 38 states in a presidential election was 1964.

At the same time, it's also a little hard to believe that a guy two years out of the Illinois state legislature was elected president and is: nationalizing industries like auto manufacturing, insurance and banking; stripping us of our nuclear defenses; imposing a household budget-busting national `health care' regime, replete with swarms of bureaucrats ready to eat out our substance; bankrupting our treasury with profligate spending, creating more debt in the last six years than created since this nation was birthed; blocking attempts to exploit our natural resources; and, consorting with our enemies, insulting our allies and debasing the executive branch of government by actually kowtowing to foreign heads of state. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure there's more I can't think of right now. Seeking tyrannical power by making himself `president for life'? What would possibly make anyone think he might try that, other than the fact that he's acting like one now? The 1st amendment: Use it or lose it, or plan on using the 2nd.

You start to get a picture of just how inconsequential a lot of that crap is when you realize that there are 600 million firearms owned by private citizens in the U.S.

One of the reasons bureacratic crap is allowed to take root is that nobody stands up to it. Even minimal resistance would send a lot of these jack@sses scurrying for cover. Just look at how chaotic things have gotten in the New York City area in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. "Big Brother" can't possibly maintain control of things once people begin to realize that there is no effective law enforcement mechanism in place and they have to take matters into their own hands.

I'll use the health care mandate provision of Obamacare as another case in point. Do you think any of those Occupy Wall Street protesters who have been unemployed for the last four years -- most of whom probably voted for Obama -- are ever going to buy a medical insurance policy as required by law? Do you think any of them are going to pay a $2,000 fine for not having a policy in place? Forget that ... How many of them do you think will even file a tax return in 2013 at all?

easy when you are allowed to get away with 141% turnouts, just program the machines with what you need

Thank you!! All this talk as though the system is still there in any semblance, no matter how f'ed up it was, as it was prior to 2008. It's gone, people. Gone. Nothing remains but the illusion that things are still functioning as they were. I know it's hard to digest but it is, what it is. All evidence points to it. You can hang your hat on Marco Rubio saving the day in 2016 but it'll be Groundhog Day with it all coming down to Ohio and Florida...and they'll blatantly steal it again. But don't worry, they'll let the GOP win a few seats here and there to give the illusion that everything is humming along just as intended some 200 years ago.

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posted on 11/09/2012 7:52:31 PM PST
by riri
(Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)

You may be the first to predict it here, but I read Porter Stansberry say it a week or more before the election and I have been suggesting this to friends ever since.

I’d say odds are 90% he’ll go for it.

I asked one Freeper whose views I share but who didn’t vote for Romney because he was too liberal, “What if you’d known in advance that O was going to seize power for 12 years? Would you have voted for Romney?” He said yes.

Many who didn’t vote for Romney may end up regretting it, I am quite certain of that.

Congratulations to the Democrats and Young People (that voted for Obama)! You now own it.
The next terrorist attack, you own it.
Can’t get a job after graduation, you own it.
Sky rocketing energy prices due to Obama’s EPA shutting down the energy producing states, you own it.
A nuclear Iran, you own it.
Bowing to the Soviet Union, you own it.
Another severe recession, you own it.
A volatile border with Mexico, you own it.
Trouble getting good health care, you own it.
Higher heath insurance costs and health care costs, you own it.
No budget, you own it.
Our allies mistrust, you own it.
Another few trillion of debt, you own it.
More Benghazi situations, you own it.
No one willing to join the military, you own it.
Trouble getting a loan to buy a home, you own it.
More dependency on food stamps, you own it.
Trouble finding good employment, you own it.
Several part time jobs instead of a good job, you own it.
A World Government, you own it.
The UN governing the United States instead of ourselves, you own it.
A Senate that will not bring any legislation to the table rather it is “Dead on Arrival”, you own it.
China controlling our world trade and trampling all over us, you own it.
Loss of our freedoms as we have known them in the past, you own it.
A dictatorship instead of a democracy that follows the Constiution, you own it.
Less take home pay and higher living costs, you own it.
Driving a car that looks like a toy, you own it.
More government corruption and lies, you own it.
More toleration of extreme and fanatical Islamists, you own it.
Terrorist attacks called work place incidents, you own it.
Revenge instead of love of country, you own it.
President George Bush is out of it now, and there is not another good man for you to vilify and lie about.
In a way I am relieved that another good man will not be blamed when it was impossible to clean up this mess you voted for.
Have a good day.
God bless the United States!
God is our hope now.

Senators or governors would have nothing to do with it. Three-quarters of state legislatures would have to ratify a constitutional amendment, after it passes both houses of Congress by 2/3’s majorities.

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